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Inquiry into health issues across international borders

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Report

On Wednesday 20 March 2013, the Standing Committee on Health and Ageing tabled its report on the Inquiry into health issues across international borders entitled Diseases have no borders: Report on the inquiry into health issues across international borders.

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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 6 chapters and 2 appendices.

Diseases have no borders: Report on the inquiry into health issues across international borders

Preliminary pages (PDF 124KB)
Contents, Foreword, Committee Membership, Terms of Reference and List of Recommendations

Chapter 1 (PDF 107KB)
Background to the inquiry

Chapter 2 (PDF 211KB)
Infectious disease policy framework

Chapter 3 (PDF 525KB)
Screening, surveillance and control of infectious disease

Chapter 4 (PDF 204KB)
International cross-border issues

Chapter 5 (PDF 216KB)
Pandemic planning and preparedness

Chapter 6 (PDF 160KB)
Does Australia need a national centre for communicable disease control?

Appendix A (PDF 60KB)
List of roundtables and participants

Appendix B (PDF 52KB)
Tabled documents